Sebastian Redl wrote:
Hi,
A few months ago I said I'd take on writing an XML library for Boost. Well, I've finally got some time on my hand and started with a little bit of brainstorming about the library.
Have you followed the discussions around my proposal for an XML API in boost that I implemented on top of libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/) ? I think that starting a new implementation from scratch is the wrong way to approach this (rather big) topic. This in particular since an 'XML library' shouldn't just provide ways to de- and encode XML documents into generic tree structures, but instead needs to provide quite a substantional amount of functionality in order to be considered complete (even if you approach this in a modular way). As an example, imagine querying your DOM-like structure with an XPath expression. Think about all this does involve, from regular expression handling, over XPath pattern matching, http lookup, entity handling, unicode, etc., etc. This is why I don't think that you should think about such a project one step at a time (e.g. the 'XML reading side of things'). Regards, Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...